Improvement in combined tables, sofas, and beds



DVKATZENSTEIN.

lmprovement in Combined Table, Sofa, and Bed.

Patented Feb.20,1872.-

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

DAVID KATZENSTEIN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMBINED TABLES, SOFAS, AND BEDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 123,829, dated February20, 1872.

Specification describing a new and Improved Combined Table, Sofa, andBed, invented by DAVID KATZENSTEIN, of the cityofNew York, in the countyand State of New York.

Figure 1 represents a Vertical section of my invention, showing it as atable. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the same, showing it as a sofa orchair; and Fig. 3 is a similar view, showing it as a bed.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention relates to a new article of furniture, which can be usedas a table, sofa or chair, and bed, as occasion may require, and which,at the sametime, is extremel simple in construction and convenient tohandle. It consists in a new combination of three cush ioned plates, ofwhich one constitutes the table-top, the sofa or chair back, and alsopart of the bed-bottom, according to the position in which it is placed.

A in the drawing represents the supportingframe of my improved articleof furniture. It consists of a kind of stool or settee, cushioned on topalong its entire extent, and also provided with a pendent cushion, B, infront. The cushion a of the stool A constitutes the seat of the chair orsofa, shown in Fig. 2, while the cushion B, which is hinged in front tothe seat, is suspended in front, as shown in the same figure. To theprojecting end pieces I) I) of the chair or sofa is, by two pair ofpins, (1 d and e e, secured the chair or sofa back 0, which is cushionedin front, but of a plain'wooden reverse. The pins (1 0 pass throughflanges or ribs ff that project from the ends of the back 0. D is adrawer, arranged under the seat a, and concealed by the pendent cushionB.

When a chair or sofa of this kind is to be converted into a table, it isonly necessary to withdraw the lower pins ea-nd swing the back 0 on (I,so that it will rest horizontally upon the end pieces I), as in Fig. 1.The pins 0 are then reapplied, but through holes in f that were formerlynear the top of the chair-back.

WVhen the chair or sofa is to be converted into a bed, the upper pins (1are withdrawn, and the back 0 swung down into line with the cushion a.The drawer D is moved back under the part 0 to sustain it in thishorizontal position, as shown in Fig. 3. The cushion B is next swung upinto a horizontal position, and has legs E E hinged to it that willsupport it. The cushion-surfaces of B, A, and (J are thus all in linehorizontally, and constitute an ample and coinmodious bed-bottom.

The bed-clothes can be kept in the drawer while the device is used as atable or sofa;

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby- Letters Patent The cushioned frame A, hinged frame B, back 0, anddrawer D, combined with end pieces I; 1), pins (1 e, and ribs ff, as andfor the purpose described.

DAVID KATZENSTEIN.

Witnesses:

A. V. BRIESEN, T. B. Mosnnn.

